Big weekend here at Encoded Designs.  Our good friend, Sargon (whom you will learn more about soon) was married on Saturday, and DNAphil was tapped as the Best Man.  So the beginning of the weekend was spent with the Rehearsal Dinner, an evening of hanging out with the groom, and then off to the wedding on Saturday afternoon.  It was a great time and Sargon and Mrs. Sargon are off to Hawaii for a 2 week honeymoon.  We wish them the best of luck to a long and happy marriage.

With Sargon away, our gaming group is taking a 2-week hiatus, as Sargon is a member in both of our current campaigns.  During the time off, one of our other players is going to demo a D&D game they are writing, should be a lot of fun.   With some downtime, I hopefully will do some maintenance on my own campaign, and get some neglected nuts and bolts stuff done, that I have been putting off.

I am also close to finishing the rules for Burning Empires.  When I am done, I will post my thoughts about the game.

I also picked up a few Dreamcast games this weekend, including Gauntlet Legends.  I am looking forward to some multi-player sessions of this game.  I should be getting Dead Or Alive 2 in the next day or so, so I am very psyched.

This week I am going to continue my discussion on my Writing Cycle and focus on the Tools of The Job, discussing some specific tools I use to keep my campaign organized.  Mid-week I will talk about my first impressions of Modern20, a new set of d20 Modern rules, by Charles Rice.